Stew4HD

Here in the Houston area (probably most everywhere else too) we've had a rash of very violent incidences of road rage. People being shot and killed.

Last Thursday, July 11th, day I encountered one of these road raging idiots. He abruptly changed lanes and hit the left front corner of my car causing him to spin out, which is only part I actually enjoyed. Luckily he didn't hit anyone else or make contact with the concrete barriers. He took off when I demanded to see his insurance. I caught the incident on my dash cam but sadly, can't make out the license plate well enough to go after the guy, not for lack of trying with both the PD and insurance company. For hose in the area, the shit happened on 59 south right where the lanes from Beltway 8 and 59 merge

My RDX is in the shop right now being repaired. Hope to get it back late next week.

Wander

Ouch. Sorry this happened, but I'm glad it was only property damage and not personal injury.

Gotta wonder if there's drugs involved, or it's just an epidemic of stupid.

Stew4HD

Fortunately it ended up just minor body repairs since this happened at highway speeds.

EvilVirus

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Sorry to hear that but I agree. So many idiots out there driving. Houston is getting worse by the day.

What type of dash cam do you have? I have blackvue DR750 series front and rear on my truck and its great.

Stew4HD

The model of mine is Rexing. I wish I had a front/rear one.. might just get one like yours. The idiot I was unlucky enough to engage was tailgating me before he decided to do a side attack, flanking maneuver

justnspace

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houston checkin in, i'm learning to leave at least 2 car lengths between the other cars.
also, with experience, you can kinda anticipate what others are going to do.

Stew4HD

That works 99% of the time. I have even started staying out of the fast lane even if I am doing 75.. they don't call it the Southwest Speedway for no reason. At 5:30 in the morning, it's crazy how they drive from where I live into the beltway.

zroger73

Sorry for your loss. Too bad he didn't crash into the concrete barrier and explode into a giant fireball.

Almost two years ago, I passed a truck driver who was driving slow in the left lane. He didn't like that and ended up blocking me off at the next red light, getting out of his truck, threatening my life, and kicking in the door and roof of my months-old Civic Si.

My VIOFO A119S dashcam caught everything that was necessary to result in his termination from the trucking company the next morning, being charged with felony criminal mischief, and paying restitution.

Hopefully, there won't be a next time, but if there is just read the plate number so it can be heard on the dashcam's audio recording.

EvilVirus

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Its pricey but well worth it. Make sure you get the power magic pro too.

ZipSpeed

It's amazing how some drivers can be the nicest people in the world, but behind the wheel, they're can behave like a spawn from hell.

justnspace

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yeah, I stopped over-taking people in general. even tho, i'm passing correctly on the left.
i'll just get behind no matter how slow they are and leave the two spaces so others can get in


I dont want to get shot!

DriverOne

Was he a citizen of another nation, by any chance?

justnspace

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^uhhhh road rage doesnt discriminate against race or gender.
it happens to ALL walks of life.

especially in a large city that has traffic. a lot of people come to Houston for job opportunities. these jobs and people create traffic. The stress of traffic leads to uncompassionate, inconsiderate people that leads to road rage

DriverOne

I realize that anyone could commit road rage. I was asking because it's Houston and, let's be frank, Houston has a lot of citizens of other nations.

justnspace

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so does New York and any other melting pot of a city...

DriverOne

I know, if it had happened in NYC, I would have asked the same thing.

BTW, this is what I was talking about when I was discussing people cutting other drivers off and everyone was giving me the business and wondering why I was so upset at being cut off.

justnspace

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my family is from a different nation

DriverOne

But you're a citizen of this one (I assume).

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

Stop assuming shit.

DriverOne

OK, then you're not?

justnspace

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Just say what you really want to say; so we can all paint you for the person you really are.

DriverOne

I'm pretty sure I always say what I want to say. What part of my first question was unclear to you? Like is your current claim that it was masked in deception and double-speak and you had to pierce through the fog in order to grasp my actual message? Because that would be hilarious.

wargor

So you are saying that people from other nations are more likely to commit road rage? GTFOH with that! Anyone is capable of road rage at any time. It's a stupid and inappropriate comment but I guess in this political climate people like you feel that it's ok to say stuff like this. It's not welcomed or tolerated. Take it to another platform!!

EvilVirus

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Driverone your stupidity is showing

cu2wagon

I think he's trying to figure out if they aggressor's skin tone was darker than mayonnaise.

cu2wagon

He probably was, and he probably left so abruptly because he was trying to get back to his shithole country. /discussion

zroger73

The person who damaged my Civic Si was a white male in his 40's born and raised in East Texas and had a long beard and tattoos and was wearing a tee-shirt with a confederate flag on it.

Most of the road ragers I encounter here in Northeast Texas seems to be 49% white men and 51% white women. I don't remember seeing many non-white road ragers.

DriverOne

No, I asked if it was a citizen from another nation. Anything beyond that is simply your interpretation, which is pretty revealing of what you think.

DriverOne

Thanks, so is yours.

DriverOne

Is there someone whose skin tone is lighter than mayonnaise?

DriverOne

That's always a possibility.

DriverOne

That's great, so you are completely able to describe them if asked. That should always be the case then, right? It's weird how a description of certain people is not allowed, isn't it?

DriverOne

BTW, you probably don't even get what that means, so I'll explain. Notice how you can say "I was hit by a white guy in his 40s who was born and raised in East Texas (you apparently traced his lineage, if I am to believe this story) who had a beard and tattoos with a T-shirt that had a Confederate flag. And if you say that, notice how nobody cared, even though you managed to put in every stereotype you could think of? But if I ask simply if it was a citizen of another nation, you guys all dropped deuces in your pants and started making bizarre and hysterical claims. That's actually far more informative of you than me, although you think the opposite.

skarface

Darker than mayonnaise = Citizen of another country. Customs has the skin tone chart hanging at the border crossing so they know who to let in...lolll

thoiboi

here's a pic of said chart

Stew4HD

Damn! This went way off the rails!

The guy was Hispanic, most likely of Mexican heritage, but had no accent so I assume he was an American, born and raised. I do not affiliate road rage with race.. I see more aggressive driving by "white" people than any other, especially those with lifted trucks.. but now I am discriminating against those drivers!.. oh my!

Like Justn said, it's the big city attitude and Houston has no mass transit to speak of. I have met Justn, he's from Mars, as far as I can tell, I am from mars too

russianDude

I got some derogatory comments from him as well given my login name. The moron has been on my ignore list

DriverOne

No, you didn't. I said "maybe that's how they do it in Russia but not in America." If you want to cry about that, go ahead, but at least tell people what it was and don't be girly about it. (And now you're going to claim that was also some gigantic insult.)

DriverOne

That's pretty amusing, particularly when Family Guy started out as trying to insult as many people as possible and made fun of political correctness and now people who are ultra-politically correct all cite this one image because it suits their needs.

DriverOne

OK, that answers the question. Thanks.